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Tom: You are funny.Mary: What do you mean?Tom: The way you have to keep making reasons for why you'll meet. You to watch him drive cars, you to have dinner with a friend. Why can't you just say, "I'd love to spend more time with you, when can we do it?"

Henry: Oh, I'll tell you who was talking about you the other day. Evelyn Napier.Mary: Oh, how is he?Henry: He's well. Still single, of course, and, I suspect, still pining for you.Mary: He will pine in vain, but I'm very fond of him.Henry: La Belle Dame sans Merci. (The beautiful woman without mercy.)Tom: What does that mean?Henry: It means Lady Mary knows what she's about.

Anna: Bad harvest, bad harvest.Bates: What does that mean?Anna: In the old days, when the crop was good, the farmers used to shout "Bad harvest!" so the gods wouldn't grow jealous of their luck and destroy them.Bates (shouts): Bad harvest!Anna: That ought to do it.

We had such fun in those days. Do you know what I shall always remember? The women going up to bed at the end of the evening. Their faces lit by the flame from the candle. Yes, diamonds twinkling as they climbed up into the darkness.